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who have used it speak of it in the highest terms of praise; 
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^J^xtract from the Report of Gommitlee on Class No. 3, at 
the Fair of the Vermont State Agricultural Society, at 
Burlington, Sept. 14.-11, 1869.] 

'' The members of the Committee have all used this 
Fertilizer (Bradley's Super-Phosphate), and in every in- 
stance where we have used it, or seen it used by others, 
we have had ample evidence of its great value, and we 
therefore recommend the award of a Silver Medal, the 
highest premium of the Society.'' 



Royalton, Vt., Nov. 5, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have tried your Super-Phosphate, pro- 
cured of J. W. Metcalf, of this place, on several crops, 
and find it all that is claimed for the same. 

It has increased my corn crop fully 100 per cent. On 
grass, where nothing but white grass grew, and but lit- 
tle of that, it has brought in a good crop of clover and 
herdsgrass. On India wheat, a piece of If acres, that 
has been sown with India wheat for ten years, on which 
I raised the year before 13 bushels, I sowed about 300 
lbs. Phosphate, and raised 43 bushels of fine India wheat, 
and a fine stock of grass. My crops with Phosphate 
ripen from ten to fifteen days earlier than without it ; 
and the quality of grain is much better. 

Yours truly, 

MARTIN T. SKINNEK. 



Dracut, Mass., Nov. 27, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have used your Super-Phosphate for the 
last six years, and always with the most satisfactory re- 
sults. I am confident that it has doubled my crops. 
The past season I used it as usual, and the effect on my 
corn was remarkable. It was acknowledged to be the 
finest piece of corn by those who saw it, to be seen any 
where in the locality. I consider your Phosphate the 
beet article in the market. 

Yours truly, 

H. D. CANNEY. 



General Agency Girard Fire Insurance Company. 
19 EiJhy Street, Boston, Dec. 6, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

My Dear Sir : For two years— 1867 and 1868 — I used 
one ton of your Phosphate. The result was good. In 
1868, my corn was called the best I had ever raised on 
the old homestead, and, in fact, I believe there was no 
better corn in the county of Belknap, N. H. 

Also, on grass land, where I sowed broadcast about 
300 lbs. to the acre, I found great improvements. In 
potatoes, wheat, oats, &c., I was also much benefited. 
Last year I was induced to buy another kind made in New 
York, I believe. My crop was a failure. 1 would advise 
all farmers in New Hampshire to use yours, and no other 
kind. It is the best, I know it, as I have tried, and 
been a sufferer to the amount of sixty dollars and failure 
of my crops. 

Farmers! Bay of Mr. Bradley, and you will not be 
sorry. Yours truly, 

L. W. CRAM. 



Windsor, Vt., Nov. 15, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley : — 

Dear Sir : I have this season tried your Super-Phos- 
phate of Lime for corn, and am satisfied that it yielded a 
third more to the acre than where there was none, and 
the corn was better filled and of larger growth. 
I can safely recommend it as a valuable fertilizer. 

Respectfully yours, E. L. PARKER. 



Centre Strafford, N. H., Sept. 21, 1869, 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have used your Super-Phosphate of Lime 
for the last four or five years. 

Apply it to the hill at the time of planting, and find 
that my corn comes up six or seven days sooner than 
without it, and continues to grow through the whole 
season, and ripens ten days earlier. 

Last year I planted a dry ridge in my pasture that did 
not produce any feed, and planted it to potatoes, using 
Phosphate in the hill, with good results, and in Septem- 
ber sowed it to winter rye. 

It is situated a third of a mile from my house, from 
which, through May and June last, the rows where the 
Phosphate was used could be distinctly counted by the 
large growth of the rye, and dark green color. 

Gentlemen stopping at my house would often ask what 
made the difference, and I was ver^"^ happy to answer, 
Bradley's Super-Phosphate of Lime. 

I also use it on all my smaller plants, with good suc- 
cess. Yours very truly, D. PLACE. 

West Waterford, Vt., Nov. 6, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : Having sold my crops before harvesting 



tliem, I cannot give an exact statement of the result ot 
application of your Super-Phosphate, but I will here 
state that my corn, where I used your fertilizer, was ten 
days earlier, and about one-third more than where I used 
another brand. I also raised a small piece of turnips, 
which speak well for your Phosphate. I consider yours 
the best known fertilizer, and shall use no other. 

NATHAN E. HARVEY. 



So. Royalton, VL, Nov. 9, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have used your Super-Phosphate for the 
past two seasons with great satisfaction. My corn was 
at least two weeks earlier this season by using your 
Phosphate. 

On potatoes, I think it increased the quantity one-half 
at least, from stable manure on the same kind of soil. 

Yours truly, 

H. E. STOUGHTON. 



From Solon Bresee, Originator of Early Hose Potato, Sc. 

HortonvUle, Vt., Nov. 15, 1869. 
W . L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : Last spring I purchased a ton of your Phos- 
phate of Lime, which I used on my corn and potatoes, 
mainly on potatoes, with beneficial effect on the crops. 
I think it added one-fourth lo the crop. 

Yours truly, 

SOLQ^t, .6RE3BE. 



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Letter from Col David M. Glough, one of ihe best 
farmers in New Hampshire. 

Canterbury, N. H., Dec. 27, 1869. 
Messrs. J. S. Pearson, & Co., 

Dear Sirs : I have been frequently asked whether or 
not I use Super-Phosphate as a fertilizer for raising corn ; 
if so, what kind? I would say to those who are desir- 
ous to know, that I have used various kinds of Phos- 
phate for the last eight or ten years — for the most part 
of late that known as the Bradley Phosphate, and I am 
quite sure that this has produced better results than any 
other. I used a ton last year and found it a great bene- 
fit, and am satisfied that the money was well expended 
— particularly so, as the season was short and cold. I am 
quite sure corn will ripen at least from eight to twelve 
days sooner where it is used than where it is not It 
seems to be just the thing required to give the early 
start so necessary to mature the crop before the early 
frost. 

I put most of the ton used last spring in the hill, on 
a field of about twenty acres of corn, and from the lot 
harvested fully two thousand bushels of sound ripe ears, 
which I think a good crop considering the unfavorable 
season and the size of the field. 

Super- Phosphate is quite as beneficial for potatoes as 
for corn — though not quite as requisite, as potatoes do 
not require so long a season to mature. There is no 
fertilizer that will make garden vegetables grow like it. 
While I would not recommend farmers to rely upon any 
phosphate alone as a substantial fertilizer for the improve- 
ment of worn-out land, I can say that it pays well when 
applied with barn-j^ard and other manures — such as all 
farmers have at hand and should carefully preserve. 

Yours truly, D. M. CLOUGH. 



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Boyalton, VL, Oct. 22, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have used Bradley's Patent Super-Phos- 
phate of Lime on potatoes this year, and it has increased 
my crop one hundred per cent, in quantity. 

Yours, &c., BENJ. DAY. 



IFrom Eon. Albe7't Knight.] 

Slanstead, P. Q., Aug. IT, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have applied your Super-Phosphate to 
most of my crops, and find it pays well for the out- 
lay. 

I send by express one bundle Norway Winter Rye, 
and if you desire it will send a bundle of spring wheat, 
both showing the power and usefulness of your Phos- 
phate as a fertilizer. 

Yours truly, 

A. KNIGHT. 



IFrom Hon. H. W. Bishop, of Lenox, Ex-Judge of the Su- 

pi^eme Court of Mass.] 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I had, previously to the last season, experi- 
mented with the Super-Phosphate manufactured at other 
places than your own. It never came up to its commenda- 
tions or my reasonable expectations. Last season I pur- 
chased some made at your establishment, resolved to 
make a careful trial of it. Upon a corn crop of an 
acre or more, ploughed the previous fall, and overspread 
with stable manure along in the winter, I made trial ; I 
prepared the ground as well as could be done by the har- 



row, manured about one-half of it in the hill with well 
prepared manure from the barn-yard. To the remainder, 
I applied your Super-Phosphate about a teaspoonful to 
each hill. The cultivation of both parts was in every 
respect alike. Upon that treated with your fertilizer, 
there was a much quicker start, larger yield, and earlier 
maturity. The difference, though not ascertained by 
weight or measure, was very apparent throughout its 
growth, and at the harvesting. I made no application 
to other crops. For the maize crop it is the best artifi- 
cial fertilizer in the market. Many of my neighbors 
have used it much more liberally than I have, and with 
various applications, and all fully agree in the views I 
express. I trust that its good name and wonderful effi- 
ciency will not be impaired by want of care in manu- 
facture, or by admixture of foreign ingredients. I am 
most respectfully your friend, and the friend of your en- 
terprise, H. W. BISHOP. 
Lenox, Mass., Dec. 11, 1869. 



Pittsfield, Mass., Dec. 8, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Sir : I have used forty tons of your Phosphate within 
three years past, with entire satisfaction on various 
crops — corn, wheat, grass, «&c. It gave me at least 
twenty-five per cent increase in corn by actual weight, 
and the other crops an equal addition to quantity, as 
well as better in quality. On old pasture it worked like 
a charm. The grass had all run out, and nothing but 
moss grew, till your Phosphate brought in white and red 
clover in abundance. I am satisfied it is a valuable fer- 
tilizer, and should be used more extensively in future 
than in years past. Yours truly, 

J. H. CROOK. 



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Walpole, N. IT., Nov. 6, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I used your Super-Phosphate on my corn 
last year with the most satisfactory results. I had 25 
per cent more corn, and better than I had with barn- 
yard and hog manure. It was the latest corn planted 
and the earliest in the fall. 

I consider it the most valuable and cheapest fertilize!* 
in use. 

Yours truly, 

ISRAEL STOWELL. 



New Vineyard, Me., Sept. 1, 1869. 

W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I raised eighty to ninety pounds of Early 
Rose Potatoes, from one potato that weighed half a 
pound, by using your Phosphate as a fertilizer. I have 
also used it on corn and other crops. I am satisfied 
with the results. Yours truly, 

GRIN HALL. 



Whallonsburg, N. Y,, April 21, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I tried your Super-Phosphate on corn, pota- 
toes, beans, wheat, oats, and garden vegetables, all with 
entire satisfaction. 

I tried the Phosphate with manure and without, and it 
worked well in both instances. I planted corn on a dry, 
gravelly side-hill, pitching to the south, which had been 
planted three years to potatoes without manure. The 
land was rather poor. A part I dunged in the hill 
lightly, and used the Phosphate on the whole, except 



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BOW and then a row, in order to test the Phosphate. I 

found the difference to be very great indeed, that having 

the Phosphate at least double, and the difference on the 

beans was still greater. 

Yours truly, 

E. W. ROGERS. 



Ashland, Mass., Sept. 1, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have used your Super-Phosphate several 

years on potatoes, and find it pays me fifty per cent 

profit. 

Yours very truly, 

SUMNER HAYDEN. 



Chelsea, Vt,, Nov. 22, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have sold over forty tons of your Phos- 
phate in this vicinity the present season, and my cus- 
tomers are satisfied with the results. A portion of them 
have reported to me as follows, viz : 

Leander Taplin, of Chelsea, used it on corn and pota- 
toes, and says it has doubled his crops. 

Nathan Goodwin, of Chelsea, says it has considerably 
more than doubled his crop of potatoes, and has done 
well on corn, even in this unfavorable season. 

Harvey Roberts, of Chelsea, feels confident from 
actual weight and measurement that he received 350 
bushels of potatoes extra, for using four barrels on three 
acres of land. 

Carlos Moore, of Chelsea, used one ton on potatoes 
and corn, doubling both crops. 



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Henry Diamond, of Chelsea, used two barrels on poor 
land, and received three times the quantity of corn and 
potatoes that the same land would produce without vour 
Phosphate. *^ 

Warren S. Russell, of Chelsea, used a ton on green- 
sward corn, and leaving a strip without, showed plainly 
that the Phosphate doubled his corn crop. 

He also used it on other crops that gave a large 
increase, and thinks your Phosphate worthy of all the 
praise it has received. 

Orlando and Jacob Flint, of Williamstown, are abun- 
dantly satisfied with the result. Their potatoes ripened 
much earlier, and are decidedly superior for table use. 

They think their entire corn crop in that field is due to 
using Bradley's Phosphate. 

Albert Ober, of Washington, used three barrels of 
your Phosphate on two acres of corn — sowing one bar- 
rel broadcast, and the other two were used at the rate of 
a table-spoonful to a hill. The corn crop was nearly 
doubled, besides getting two to three hundred bushels 
of turnips from seed sown among the corn. 

Elisha G. Lougee, of Tunbridge, used one barrel for 
corn, and says that one row with Phosphate gave him as 
much as three rows without, besides ripening it two weeks 
ahead of his neighbors. 

He also used a barrel on potatoes, and is certain the 
crop was doubled and of better quality. 

He is satisfied that a dollar invested in your Phosphate 
has brought him in three. 

He will use a ton next year. 

As for my own experience, I can say that using 
your Phosphate this year has doubled my corn and pota- 
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Omitting to uae it on several rows of each, showed 
that such rows were hardly worth harvesting. 

On tomatoes it has gone far beyond my expectations, 
and astonished all who saw them. 

Also used it on turnips with great results. 

Your Phosphate stands at the head of all commercial 
fertilizers in this State, and my first order for next winter 
and spring sales is thirty tons, and I expect to double it 

at least before April. 

Yours truly, 

ISAAC H. MERRILL. 



Winslow, Me., Sept. 1. 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have used your Super-Phosphate two years 
with good results on nearly all my crops — showing 
beautifully on corn and potatoes. A neighbor tried it on 
corn leaving one row without. 

The one row is not eared at all, while the rows with 
Phosphate are well eared out. I consider your Phos- 
phate an excellent fertilizer. 

Yours truly, 

CLARK DRUMMOND. 



(Frmn the Editor of the Household.) 

Brattleboro\ VU, Sept. 23, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : Your letter of inquiry was received three 
weeks after date owing to my absence. 

I have used your Phosphate the past season on my 
corn, and in my gardens, and the result has been highly 
satisfactory wherever it was applied. Its effect upon 
cabbag-es was remarkable. 



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I am satisfied from experiments with it that it in 

Very respectfully, 

GEO. C. CROWELL. 

W. L. Bradley, - i*«%ton, Me., Sept. 8, 1869. 

and Torn "w-.^ "sed your Super-Phosphate on potatoes 
and corn, with results entirely satisfactory. My whole 
crop of potatoes is due to using your Super-Phosphate. 

Yours truly, 
E. T. BOODY. 

(^rom the Vermont Standard.) 
The following letter coming from gentlemen who ex 
penment intelligently, will be of interest to ourlgricul 
ural readers. We insert it not as an advertisem f t .o • 

L valuaT- ; '' "^^"^* '' ^^^ ^-' b"* --PJy for 
tlie valuable information it contains : — 

^j , ^ Woodstock, Vt, May 8, 1869. 

W . Li. JKRADLEY, 

Dear Sir : We. last year, used about a ton of your 
buper-Phosphate, experimenting mostly with corn We 
planted about five acres, using about two hundred and 
Wty pounds per acre, applying it in the hill only. 
en2eH r*'"^ some rows without Phosphate, we were 

season a'.T"''*''' ''''''"' ^^^"* throughout the 
reason. A difference could be readily seen in the corn 

as soon as it came up. That with the fertilizer quickly 

attained a growth fully one-third larger than the other 

and maintained this difference up to maturity. By care- 



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ful measurement at liarvest, we are satisfied that the crop 
was increased fully twenty-five per cent, and that the 
corn matured ten days earlier than it would otherwise 
have done. The soil was clay loam. 

In experimenting with turnips (Sweet German), we 
think it increased the yield from thirty to forty per 
cent. We shall use your Phosphate freely the present 
season, with corn, potatoes, and turnips. 
Truly yours, 

GUSHING & BOYXTOX. 



[State Reform School of Connecticut.) 

West Meriden, Conn . , D ec . 12, 1868. 

\W L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir: We much prefer your Super-Phosphate 
on the various crops we raise on our farm to any now in 
market. 

I am happy to recommend yours as a superior article 
to all who use fertilizers. 

We shall order an increased amount for next year's 
use. 

Yours truly, 

E. W. HATCH, Supt. 



{From Major Field of the Delavan House.) 

Albany, May 3, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have for the last four years used your 
Super-Phosphate on my land at West Springfield with 
marked success. The land is a meadow loam soil, usu- 
ally found in the Connecticut River Valley. I have used 
it more particularly on corn and root crops. When used 
on corn land the benefit was very marked. The corn on 



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the part of the field where the Super-Phosphate was 
used was a darker green, and ripened at least two weeks 
earlier than where I used other fertilizers. The effect 
was the same with other crops. I have found it an ex- 
cellent thing to use about grape-vines also, keeping them 
healthy, and forcing an earlier maturity. In fact, it is 
good wherever a fertilizer is required. 

Respectfully, W. D. FIELD, 

Delavan House. 



Bridgelon, Me , Sept. t, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have used two barrels of your Super- 
Phosphate on one and a half acres of sweet corn where I 
raised potatoes last year, and the corn is a third better 
than where I used a shovelful of manure in a hill. I con- 
sider your Phosphate the best fertilizer in our market. 

Yours truly, 

NATHAN S. FREEMAN. 



New Gloucester, Me., Sep. T, 1869. 
This certifies that three years ago I used Bradley's 
Super-Phosphate on corn with splendid results. 

Last year I used another brand in the same manner, 
without any result from it. 

This year we have used Bradley's again with the same 
good results as the first season. 

F. CRAWFORD. 



Malone, N. Y., April 2, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir: Your favor of March 30th is before me 
and in reply to inquiry with regard to my experience in 



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the use of your Super-Phosphate, would say that I used 
but one barrel, and that principally on hops ; the re- 
mainder was used on my garden with entirely satisfactory 
results. 

My hops threw up the most luxuriant and vigorous 
growth of vines I ever saw, but the drouth and wind 
damaged the crop materially, so that I cannot judge so 
definitely of the result as I otherwise might. I am satis- 
fied that, under ordinary circumstances, your Phosphate, 
properly applied, would nearly or quite double the yield 
of hops. 

Yours respectfully, 

THOMAS H. ATWOOD. 



(From the Editor of the " North Star.'') 

Danville, Vt., Nov., 22, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : After using your Super-Phosphate for two 
successive years, I am fully convinced that it can be 
profitably used as a fertilizer in raising all kinds of crops. 
My past success with your Phosphate will warrant my 
using another season, a much larger quantity than at any 
previous time. 

Very respectfully, 

N. H. EATON. 



{From Hon. Levi Stochbridge, Farm Manager, State 
Agricultural College.) 

Amherst, Mass., March 6, 1869. 

W. L. Bradley, — 

Sir : Your Super-Phosphate used by me last year, fully 
sustains its reputation as a first-class fertilizer. Having 



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used this article'every year siuce you placed it in the 
market, and found it uniformly good, I have come to 
consider it a standard fertilizer, and an essential in good, 
successful cultivation. Please send me ten tons for use 
the coming season. 

I am, sir, yours truly, 

LEVI STOCKBKIDGE. 



(From Rev. W. W. Whittm.) 

WakefieU, Mass., Nov. 30, 1869. 

W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have used your Super-Phosphate the past 
season on potatoes, corn, beans, squashes, beets, turnips, 
tomatoes and cabbages, all with the most gratifying 
results. 

My potatoes were very large, and gave me more than 
double the amount raised by my neighbors on the same 
quality of land adjoining my garden — the largest one 
weighing 29 ounces, and the largest beets nearly five 
pounds. My cabbages were unusually large, and in fact 
every application of Phosphate astonished all who saw 
the products referred to. 

W. W. WHITTEN. 

{Frmn the Editor of tlu Home Journal.) 

Gardiner, Me., Nov. 1, 1869. 

W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I cannot tell you precisely the effect of your 
Super-Phosphate, as compared with stable manure and 



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other fertilizers. I can say, however, that I have fobnd 
it highly satisfactory, and that I am in every way pleased 
with it. Yours truly, 

H. K. MORRELL. 



Oxford, Me., Oct. 30, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Sir : I applied two hundred and twenty pounds of 
your Super-Phosphate to two acres of corn land, evenly 
manured and prepared, excepting four rows of fifty-five 
hills each, to which I applied a handful per hill of plaster 
and ashes, equal parts. Result — four rows with plaster 
and ashes gave one hundred ninety-eight pounds sound, 
and twelve pounds of pig corn, while four contiguous 
rows, Phosphated, gave me two hundred thirty-six 
pounds sound, and eight pounds of pig corn. 

This controverts the idea of some men, that plaster 
and ashes are as good as Super-Phosphate. 
Yours experimentingly, 

W. N. THOMAS. 



Greenfield, Mass., March, 19, 1869. 

W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : Last year we used your Super-Phosphate 
on corn and tobacco, and were perfectly satisfied with 
the result, so much so that we have ordered of your 
agent a goocj supply for the coming season, and shall use 
no other kind. 

Yours truly, 

J. D. & C. P. PIERCE. 



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North Tray, Vt., Nov. 18, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : Last year I tried your Phosphate in compari- 
son with that of another maker, on potatoes and corn, 
with and without manure. The result was that yours 
was the best, and gave more than twice the yield of corn 
and potatoes than where I planted with the other Phos- 
phate or with manure. 

This year I planted a field of corn with your Phos- 
phate, leaving two rows without it. The result was that 
those two rows were not half as large, and three weeks 
behind those planted with your Phosphate. In fact it 
proved that your Phosphate gave me a good crop of 
corn, and without it this cold year I should have got 
none. This year I used your Phosphate on some turnips 
planted in ground that the soil was scraped oif, leaving 
nothing but sand and gravel, and it gave me some of the 
largest and best turnips I ever saw. 

I pulled one before it got its growth, and carried it 
over to Elkins and Brailey's store and Mr. Brailey 
weighed it, and it weighed fifteen pounds. Your Phos- 
phate, in my opinion, will forward corn and potatoes 
three weeks, and is equally good on all kinds of melons. 
Yours truly, 

HOLLIS F. PETTENGILL. 



[From Judge French of Windsor County.'] 

Proctorsville, Vt., Sept. 13, 1869. 

I have used Bradley's Super-Phosphate of Lime the 
past season on my corn, some three acres — omitting six 
entire rows of twenty-six rods in length each — and can 
say that the rows not Phosphated yielded less than half 



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the amount of corn and fodder that is produced by the 
Phosphate — using simply one large spoonful to the hill. 

CALVIN FRENCH. 



West Gummington, Mass., Dec. 9, 1869. 

W. L. Bradley, — 

Sir : I have used your Phosphate, and think more of it 
than of any other kind that I have ever used. It pays 
me better on potatoes than on any other crop. 

For vines it is an excellent fertilizer, and on many 
other crops it will pay well. 

I used about one hundred pounds of your Phosphate 
on poor land in 1866, and sowed herdsgrass with seven- 
teen loads of manure to an acre, then put the Phosphate 
on a strip of this sward land after ploughing. 

I could see the effect of the Phosphate within two 
weeks, and it has shown itself plainly ever since. 

I cut li ton of bay per acre, where 800 lbs. was all I 
could get before. Yours truly, 

ALBERT FORD. 

[From the Boston Cultivator.) 

Ex-GoVERNOR HOLBROOK ON BrADLEy's SuPER-PhOSPHATE. 

I have used Bradley's Super-Phosphate of Lime for sev- 
eral years, with invariably good results, and commend 
him for his integrity in manufacturing it. 

Bradley's Super-Phosphate is excellent for about 
every vegetable grown in the garden ; for yards and 
lawns, and the various shrubs cultivated therein ; for 
corn and potatoes — in field cultivation; and es- 

Ipecially when stocking land to grass, whether in the 
/ usual way, with a grain crop in spring, or with grass 
seeds alone in August and September. 
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By applying, say 300 lbs. of Super-Phosphate per acre, 
with the grain and grass seeds in spring, the straw is 
much stiffened, the crop less liable to lodge, the heads 
are large and the kernels plurap, while grass seeds catch 
well and give a thick stand of grass. 

Turning over old bound-out mowing or sward land in 
August, and applying, say 500 lbs. of Super-Phosphate 
per acre and reseeding directly to grass without taking a 
crop of grain, will give an increased quantity and im- 
proved quality of hay crops for three and four years fol- 
lowing ; or if the land be pasture exclusively, this mode 
of treatment will improve the pasture very much for 
quite a number of years, or pastures which cannot be 
ploughed, be much improved by top-dressing with Brad- 
ley's Super-Phosphate. 

F. HOLBROOK. 

Brattle^boro', Vt., Jan. 20, 1869. 



Bumney, JSI. H., Nov. 30, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : Your favor came duly to hand, and I ac. 
knowledge the same by an early reply. 

I have used your Super-Phosphate with great success. 

I commenced using it in small quantity but increased 
every year. Last year I ordered four tons, and not hav- 
ing enough, I sent for more, but could not get it. 

This year I have ordered ten tons. 

1 purchased a piece of land containing about seven 
acres, — plowed it up — commenced using Bradley's 
Phosphate — did not have any other dressing, — sowed 
my oats, and in the fall harvested two hundred bushels 
of very nice heavy oats from a piece of ground that had 
cut only one ton of hay, and had been considered almost 



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worthless. I have used one or two other kinds but 
think yours superior to any that is offered to the public. 
I am very truly yours, 

CHARLES SPAULDING. 



Sharon, Vt., Nov. 8, 1869. 

W. L. BUADLEY, — 

Dear Sir : I have used over 2000 lbs of your Super- 
Phosphate of Lime the three past seasons, mostly on 
corn and potatoes. I have tried it beside ashes and 
plaster and barn manure, and found all the difference in 
favor of the Phosphate. 

My potatoes, with plaster and ashes, were barely 
worth digging, while those Phosphated yielded a good 
crop ; and my corn was larger by half, and full two 
weeks eai lier, and more ears. 

I give it as my opinion that my corn and potato crop 
would have been a failure this year had I not used your 
Super-Phosphate of Lime. 

Yours truly, JOHN P. SMITH. 



Chester, R,Nov. 12, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : Referring to my letter of Oct. 14, 1868, I 
would say, that another (the 4th) year's use of your 
Phosphate confirms my faith in it as the best fertilizer I 
have ever used, and I have no disposition to farm with- 
out it. 

My use of it the present year has been principally on 
corn, and the result has been very satisfactory, although 
this has been a hard season for corn as well as other 
crops. I did not leave a single hill without your Phos- 
phate. Yours truly, 

0. S. SAWYER. 



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Fiizwilliam, N. H., Jan. 17, 1870. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : In reply to your request, I will say, I 
bought one barrel of your Super-Phosphate, and tried it 
with good success, as follows : I spread manure on the 
field, and plowed it in ; for I thought my land was so dry 
that it ought to be under farther than harrowing in. I 
put one spoonful of Phosphate in a hill, leaving thirty 
hills without. The thirty hills looked very bad. They 
were visible anywhere. I also planted another field, 
spreading manure, and then manuring in the hill. I also 
left thirty hills, as well manured in the hill as any in the 
field, and in as good a place in the field ; but they were 
soon left behind, and they never caught up ; they were 
never one-half as thrifty or good. I also left six hills, 
through the manure portion, thinking they would outdo 
the Phosphate ; but, to my surprise, the Phosphate 
lead ofi*, from three to five inches the tallest, and the 
greenest. 

I also wish to say, in behalf of my neighbor Drury, 
— who bought two barrels of your Phosphate, because I 
got one, and he thought his crop was rather more than 
doubled, — he planted a few rows with hen manure, sup- 
posing it would dress up like a military company ; but 
the Phosphate lead ofi* on a quickstep and left it behind. 
He also planted a few rows on hog manure, which most 
everybody thinks to be the best manure in the world ; 
that did well, but there was a marked diff*erence be- 
tween them, the Phosphate being much the best. One 
of my other neighbors, Fairbanks, got a cask of your 
Phosphate, and he planted two rows with and two with- 
out Phosphate through the field, and his field showed as 
plain as striped bed-ticking, the Phosphate being much 
the best, I think the earth has waxed old, as a garment, 



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and needs a spur like a dull horse, to make it produce 
as of old ; and your Phosphate is just the thing. 

I ought to have said, that I think a man would save 
half of his time in applying the Phosphate in hills instead 
of manure ; but my corn was the best where both were ap- 
plied in the hill. I raised the best cabbages with your 
Phosphate that I ever raised. 

Truly yours, ISAAC DAVIS. 

Highgate, Vt., Jan. 17, 1870. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir: I have used Bradley^s Super-Phosphate of 
Lime two years, and have received great benefit. In 
1868 I planted three acres to corn, using a spoonful of 
Phosphate to a hill, and left two rows without an}'- 
Phosphate. The ground was manured with stable 
manure, and harrowed in about six cords to the acre. 
The two rows without Phosphate were not more than 
half as great a yield, and were about twenty days later 
in ripening. On three acres I got 440 bushels of ears, 
by measure. In 1869 I got from one acre, manured the 
same as last year, 168 bushels of ears. Another acre 
gave 158 bushels. I had one acre manured with coa-'se 
yard manure ploughed in, and used half a handful of 
Phosphate to a hill, all but one row of 45 hills through 
the centre of the piece. 

At harvesting I cut one row on each side of that, 
of the same number of hills in each row, husked and 
measured separate, and received from the two rows with 
Phosphate one and one-half bushels of ears each, nearly 
all sound ; from the row without Phosphate, one- 
half bushel, all unsound. With me, by using Phosphate 
with stable manure, my crop of corn is doubled, and 
with yard manure ploughed in it is trebled, besides being 
of a better quality. JOHN JEWETT. 



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Marlboro, N. H., Jan, 14, 18Y0. 
W. L. Bradley, Esq., — 

Dear Sir : I have not made any exact experiments with 
your Phosphate, but have used it for two years past, with 
satisfactory results. 

I think that it increased the growth of corn one third, 
and caused it to ripen two weeks earlier, I think the in- 
crease on potatoes was still greater. 

I will try in future to be able to give a more exact ac- 
count of its qualities and results, but I can safely rec- 
ommend it as a valuable fertilizer. 

Respectfully yours, 

SILAS OALLISTER. 



From Hon. J". S. Howe, of Gommittee on Agriculture ^ 
Massachusetts Senate of 1870. 

Methuen, Mass., Jan. 20, 1870. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have used your Super-Phosphate of Lime, 
to some extent, for the last three years, and have been 
well satisfied with its effects. It is a safe, convenient, 
and reliable fertilizer, speedy in its action, and especially 
valuable to give a crop a "good start.'' 

Every farmer has felt the need of a concentrated ma- 
nure, easily to be obtained, and convenient for use, to give 
his crops an early start ; I know of nothing more econ- 
omical, or better adapted to this purpose than Bradley's 
Super-Phosphate of Lime. 

Yours, &c., 

J. S. Howe. 



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JFrom G. Horace Hubbard, Esq., one of the Directors of the 
Vt. State Agricultural Society, and Editor of the Ver- 
mont Record and Farmer. 

Springfield, Fi5., Sept. 23, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I desire to congratulate you on the signal 
success your Super-Phosphate has achieved at the New 
England and Vermont State Agricultural Fairs. 

Having tried it last spring I am satisfied it is worthy 
the unusual honors awarded. 

The great benefit it is doing to the farming community 
is a still greater honor. 

I hope and have no doubt that you will continue to 
manufacture a first class article. 

Very truly yours, 

C. HORACE HUBBARD. 



Henniker, N. H., Dec. 27, 1869. 
Messrs. J. H. Pearson & Co., — 

Gentlemen : X don't know as I can give you any bet- 
ter idea of the popularity of Bradley's Super-Phosphate 
of Lime in this vicinity, than by stating that in 1867, 
when I first introduced it here, but three tons of it were 
sold. The next year I sold ten tons. Last season twelve 
tons were sold, and more might have been, but the supply 
was short of the demand. It has given general satis- 
faction. Its strongest advocates are among our best 
farmers. I have conversed with those who expressed 
the opinion that had it not been for the Super-Phosphate 
they used last season, their corn crop would have been 
an entire failure. Its reputation is well established here, 



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and, judging from the past, I see no reason why there 
may not be an increased demand the coming season. 

JOHN GUTTERSON. 



Marlow, N. H., Jan. 15, 1870. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : I have experimented with your Phosphate 
the two past seasons, and have become thoroughly con- 
vinced of its good effects. As a hill dressing, for corn 
and potatoes, I found it to produce heavier and earlier 
crops than either barn-yard, hog or hen manure, or even 
night soil. Its use I consider a sure guaranty of a good 
crop in field or garden. 

Yours truly, 

MARSHALL PERKINS, M. D. 



Marlow, N. H., Jan. 15, 1870. 
W. L. Bradley , — 

Dear Sir ; I had one acre of ground broke up last 
spring, put a shovelful of manure in the hill, and used 
two hundred and sixty pounds of your Super-Phosphate, 
and had one hundred and eighteen baskets of corn. 

In the same lot, I had an acre and a half of ground 
broke up in the fall, spread a good coat of cattle manure 
and manured in the hill same as the other, without the 
Phosphate, the result was fifty-two bushels, and poor 
corn at that, and a week or two later. 
Yours respectfully, 

GEO. H. MESSER. 



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Winooski, Vt., Oct. 18, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley : — 

Dear Sir : I wish to inform you that for the last three 
years I have used your standard Super-Phosphate to 
perfect satisfaction and consider it the best manufac- 
tured fertilizer in the market. My opportunities to see its 
effects on all growing crops have been very extended, 
having been employed on the Vt. C. & S. R. R., and Vt. 
& C. R. R., which extends from Bellows Falls, Vt., to 
Rouse's Point, N. Y., as wood agent. 

I have often talked with the farmers as to the merits 
of your Phosphate, and all esteem it the best article in 
the market. E. G. BABCOCK. 



Middlebury, Vt., Nov. 1, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley : — 

Dear Sir : I have used your Phosphate this season on 
corn and squash, but have not experimented with it. I 
used it on greensward for corn without manure, and I 
think it was a great benefit to my corn. 

It was a muck and marl soil ; where 1 did not apply 
Phosphate I did not get any corn, and where I did ap- 
ply it I got a fair crop. I think all the corn I did get 
was owing entirely to the Phosphate ; but the season 
was such that it probably could not receive the merit it 
deserves. I think it a great benefit to the squash as a 
stimulant to growth, and ripening them before early 
frost. Yours truly, 

JAMES M. PIPER. 



Huntington, Vt., Oct. 24, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley : — 

Dear Sir : In 1868 I tried your Super-Phosphate on 
barren pasture and without any manure, and planted it 



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late, and I <^ot one hundred bushels of nice ears, and 
they were well filled out, on one acre of land. I used 
one barrel to the acre. 

T consider it the best fertilizer in use, — better than 
hog manure. I shall use it more extensively next year. 
Truly yours, WILLSON PHILLIPS. 



Thetford, Vt., Nov. 17, 1869. 

W. L. Bradley : — 

Dear Sir : I bought 16 barrels of your Super-Phos- 
phate last spring for myself and neighbors. I used it 
quite extensively on potatoes, with good results. There 
was a marked difference both in size and quantity, be- 
tween the rows which had Phosphate and those which 
had none. 

Wm. Slade, one of my neighbors, had one barrel which 
he used on the hill on one and one-half acres of corn. 
The ground had a moderate dressing of stable manure. 
Two rows through the middle of the field had had no 
Phosphate. I saw the corn when he was hoeing it the 
second time ; the two rows were very small, yellow and 
sickly, while the others were not only t\f ice as large, 
but were thrifty and of good color. He gives me the 
result of the experiment as follows : The two rows which 
had no Phosphate gave two bushels of ears of sound 
corn and 3-4 bushel of pig corn. Two rows which had 
Phosphate alongside of these gave 4 1-2 bushels of very 
fine ears, and 1-4 bushel pig corn. He thinks this paid. 
Others have much to say in praise of the Phosphate. 
We shall want more next year. 

Yours truly, H. P. CLOSSON. 



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^ „, ,, /S'/iaron, Vt., Dec. 20, 1869. 
J. W. Metcalf, — 

Dear Sir : We have used Bradley's Patent Super- 
Phosphate of Lime, sold by you, and proved it to be all 
it was recommended. 

J. B. KIMBALL, S. A. ALDRICH, 

J. B. BLANCHARD, H. BLANCHARD, 

A. WILLIAMS, N. TOVVNSEND, 

L. WALBRIDGE, P. EVERETT 

D. JACOBS, N. JACOBS, ' 

H. AUSTIN, J. RODGERS, 

C. CASWELL, A. D. BUZZELL. 



Danville, Vt., Nov. 14, 1869. 
W. L. Bradley, — 

Dear Sir : In reply to your letter, will say that I h ive 
used your Super-Phosphate for several years, with good 
success, applying it to corn, oats, and potatoes. I used 
to put on about 25 loads of barn-yard manure to the 
acre, and then about 12 loads of good hog manure in the 
hill in planting corn ; and don't think I got any better 
corn from the manure than I now do from one table- 
spoonful of your Super-Phosphate ; — and it ripens full 
two weeks earlier than it did when I used hog manure. 

On oats I sowed about 200 lbs. of the Phosphate to the 
acre, and I never raised such oats before. The straw 
was very stout ; but they did not lodge ; and ripened 
seven to ten days earlier than those sowed at the same 
time by my neighbors, without Phosphate. The yield 
was sixty bushels to the acre of good oats, that would 
weigh 34 lbs. to the bushel ; being most as many again as 
I ever raised before from an acre without Super-Phosphate. 

Last year I raised from f of an acre, manured with 
your Phosphate only, 325 bushels of turnips, some of 
them so large that a peck basket would not let them in. 

EDWIN M. WEBSTER. 



DIRECTIONS FOE USE. 



It should be tlie aim of every farmer and cultivator of the 
toil to render his fields and garden rich, by thorough cultiva- 
tion, and by a wise system in the application of manures. It 
will be admitted that the substances which have been removed 
from the soil should be restored to it, to insure fertility. One 
of the most effectual means of accomplishing this purpose is 
furnished in the form of Bradley's Super- Phosphate of Lime. 
It must he remembered that this is a powerful and active ma- 
nure, and in the different modes of application it must not he 
allowed to come directly in contact ivith seeds or plants ; it 
should he incorporated with the soil or scattered around grow- 
ing plants. 

We give the following directions for its use : — 

For Top-Dressing Grass Land. 

From 300 to 600 lbs. per acre on mowing land should be 
applied early in the spring. It can also be applied to advan- 
tage just after mowing, or in the autumn. The application of 
200 lbs. per acre to old pasture land will be found highly 
beneficial. It should be applied just before or after a rain, or 
when the ground is moist. 

For Wheat, Eye, Oats, and Barley. 

From 300 to 400 lbs. per acre. After the land is ploughed 
and harrowed, apply the Super-Phosphate, and then sow the 
grain, &c., and harrow all in together. It can be applied 
when the grain is two or three inches high with decided bene- 
fit. 

For Buckwheat and Millet. 

Apply 250 to 300 lbs. per acre, using it in the same way as 
for other grain. This amount is suflScient to warrant a crop, 
even on poor soil. 

For Corn and Potatoes. 

Apply half a handful or two-thirds of a gill to each hill, 
thoroughly mixing it with the soil, then drop the seed. Its 
effects are most favorable. 



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For Beans and Pease. 

Apply half a handful to a hill. If sown in rows, to be 
used in the same proportion, mixing it with the soil, using the 
same quantity at first hoeing, round the plants. 

For Turnips. 

Apply 300 to 400 lbs. per acre with the seed; this quantity 
will give an excellent crop. This application at the time of 
sowing will produce the clearest and sweetest turnips. The 
sowing should be done just before a rain if possible. 

For Beets, Carrots, Onions, and Garden Vegetables. 

Apply at least equal to 500 lbs. per acre, spreading it on 
after the land is ploughed and harrowed ; then to be worked in 
thoroughly with a harrow. After thinning, apply some as a 
top-dressing, and cultivate thoroughly. The dark and healthy 
change of color given to the plants will now be observed, and 
producing large-sized vegetable. 

For Squashes, Melons, and Cucumbers. 

Apply a handful to a hill, thoroughly mixing it with the 
soil, then drop the seed. At first hoeing apply a handful to a 
hill as a top dressing. This will fertilize the growth so that 
the fruit will come to maturity in the warm season, when they 
are most desirable. 

For Cabbages and Tomatoes. 

Apply a handful to a plant at the time of transplanting; 
cultivate thoroughly, and apply the same quantity as a top- 
dressing. Treated in this manner cabbages have been obtained 
four times larger than those without the Phosphate. 

For Asparagus. 

Apply eight quarts to the square rod, with about eight quarts 
of salt, at the time of digging over the beds in the spring ; to 
be well raked in. In about ten days after, apply eight quarts 
more of salt as a top-dressing. 



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For Strawberries. 

Apply four quarts to a square rod, broadcast early in the 
spring, with a good dressing of leaf mould, which will keep the 
ground cool and moist, and insure a good crop. 

Kaspberries, Blackberries, and Currants 

May have a liberal dressing, digging in with a garden -fork in 
the spring, and can be used to advantage any time in summer. 

For Fruit-Trees and Grape-vines. 

It will be found to be an invaluable and lasting manure- 
Loosen the earth well in the spring, with a garden-fork, then 
apply the Phosphate liberally, and rake it in, which will give a 
vigorous and a healthy growth, ripening the wood early, caus- 
ing it to produce a larger amount of fruit-buds, and luxuriant 
growth of the fruit, also improving the quality. 

Steeps or Liquids. 

Apply 300 to 400 lbs. per acre, with the seed; this quantity 
will give an excellent crop. The application at the time of 
sowing will produce the clearest and sweetest turnips. The 
sowing should be done just before a rain, if possible; 



Twenty years of experience have demonstrated the fact, that Phos- 
phate of Lime, with or without farm-yard manure, increases the 
crops. 

Chemistry demonstrates that it adds to their quality, and perma- 
nently improves the land. 

The same kind of turnips grown on the same field, one with Phos- 
phate and the other with farm-yard manure, presents this striking 
difference in the proportion of Phosphate contained in the ash of 
the turnips : The one grown on Phosphate yielded 30 per cent of 
Phosphate, while the manure turnip contained only 11 per cent of 
Phosphate. This could not fail to make an important diflference in 
their relative value for the feeding of stock whose bones are growing, 
and which require a large amount of Phosphate in their food. 

Dk. JAS. F. W JOHNSON, F. R. S. S., L. E. 

While the above is true in reference to the turnip and root crops, it is equal- 
ly true in reference to all grain and hay crops and pasture. W. L. B. 



FAIR GROUNDS OF THE 
VERMONT STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

Burlington, Vt., Sept., 1869. 
We, the undersigned, have used Bradley's Super-Phosphate of 
Lime for several years, and consider it the best Fertilizer of which 
we have any knowledge 



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GEORGE PELCHY, Milton, Vt., 

D. N. IJUTTOLPH, Middlebury, Vt. 
DARIUS RUSS, White River June 

tion, Vt. . 

W. A. THOMAS, Georgia, Vt. 
JEHIAL AVRIGHT, Middlebury, \ t. 
ADDISON ISHAM, Wi'liston, Vt. 

E. KINSLEY, New Haven. Vt. 
J. B. TABOR, Moorisviile, Vt. 
WILSON PHILLIPS, Huntington, 

Vt. 
S. T. LAMPHEAR, Morristown, \ t. 

F. \V. MOSELEY, Poultuey, Vt. 
MILTON W.WILEY, Saxton's River, 

Vt. 
E. M. SPRAGUE, Slarksboro', Vt. 
L. BULLOCK, Jericho, Vt. 
WM. E. WHITE, Panton, \t. 
EDGAR PIPER, Middlebury, Vt. 
J. E GODDARD, St. Albans, Vt. 
U. M. SUN DEK LAND, Highgate,^!, 
B. F. PARKHURST, E. Raudolph.Vt 
E. S. STOVVELL, Cornwall, Vt. 
D. B. COLLINS, Monkton, Vt. 
BENJ. G. MERITT, Rutland, Vt. 
W. M. AUSTIN, Marshtield, Vt. 



HENRY CHENEY, East Barre, Vt. 

GEO. MILLER, Williston, Vt. 

H. P. CLOSSON, Thetford, Vt. 

H. T. CUTTS, Orwell, Vt. 

E. G. BABCOCK, Winooski, Vt. 

R. P. WALKER, Benson, Vt. 

W. B. MACRAE, Winooski Lalls, Vt. 

ALLEN BARSTOW. Shelbnrne, Vt. 

GARDNER POOR, Berlin, Vt. 

J. C. HODGES ,Jericho, Vt. 

SOLON BRESEE, Sudbury, Vt. 

N. BROWNELL.Essex Junctiou,Vt. 

JOHNBROWN, Benson, Vt. 

H. C. GLEASON, Waterbury, Vt. 

HORACE F. PETTENGILL, North 

Troy, Vt. , ^^ 

ORTON BARNUM, Monkton. Vt. 
E, MOULTON, Oswell, Vt. , 
DANIEL B. SMALL, Huntington, 

Vt. 
O KENYON, Hinesburg, Vt. 
M. S. LEE, Vergenncs, Vt. 
RUSSEL J. MORSE, Bolton, Vt. 
NATHAN HIGLEY, Richniond,Vt. 
CLEMENT PLACE, Hinesburg, V t. 
J, C. LORD, Whallonsburg, Vt. 



FAIR GROUNDS OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

Portland, Me., Sept., 1869. • 
We, the undersigned, have used Bradley's Super-Phosphate of 
Lime for several years, and consider it the best Fertilizer in the 



market. 

F. BOWKER, Brunswick, Me. 
LYMAN WHITTIER, Vienna, Me. 
JOSEPH MORRILL.New Sharon.Me. 
SALEM EDMANDS, Canaan, Me. 
SAMUEL GREELEY, Readfield, Me 
CHAS. A. STAPLES, Topsham, Me. 
GEO. W. BEARCE, Winthrop, Me. 
F C. BLANCUAKD,Cumberland,Me. 
SULLIVAN CONVERSE, New 

Braintree, Mass. ,„ , „ , , 

NATHANIEL KEEN, West Poland, 

Me. 
SIMEON P. FITZ, Auburn, Me. 
W. C. BEAL, Avon, Me. , „ „ „ , 
J.S. SMITH (Conductor B. & M.R.R.), 

Westbrook,Me, 
WM. H BERRY, Campton, N.H. 
ASA W. PRATT, Westbrook, Me. 
SAMUEL WALKER, Burlington, 

3Jass. , .^ ,, >r 

G. H. MORSE, South Dedham, Mass 
PARKER BROWN, Bow, N.H. 
JAMES HULIT, New Gloucester, Me 
J. W. BIXBY, Saccarappa, Me. 



A. BERRY, Bonny Eagle, Me. 
JOSEPH BURBANK, Buxton, Me. 
L. T. REYNOLDS, Pembroke, Me. 
H. K. MORRILL (Editor Home J our- 

nal), Gardiner, Me. 
G. F. BEEDE. Fremont, N.H. 
CHARLES VERRILL, East Poland, 

Me. 
M. STAPLES, Limerick, Me. 
JEREMIAH HUNT, Brunswick, Me. 
WM. R. SILVER, Bloomfield, Vt. 
J. B. FASSETT, Irasburg, Vt. 

A. D. GUILD, Augusta, Me. 

T. S.WALKER, Freeport, Me. 
LEONARD C. ROBERTS, Gorham, 

Me. 
JOEL CARD, Bowdoinham, 5Ie. 

B. K.STEARNS,New Gloucester,Me. 
JOSEPH WILSON, Oxford, Me. 

S. R. CLEMENT, West Gorham, Me. 
EDWARD OSGOOD, Palermo, Me. 
THEODORE OSGOOD, Palermo, Mo. 
HARRINGTON OSGOOD, Palermo 
Me. 



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